Sabrina Claudio popped by the Genius office to dissect her new song “Memory Foam.” The song is produced by STINT and off her album 'Fall In Love With Her.' On today’s episode of Verified, the singer gets vulnerable as she opens up about how her friends helped nurture her back to life, the story behind the song’s title, losing a relationship to video games, and much more!
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00:00I'm not gonna lie.
00:01I have been through it, sister.
00:03And if it wasn't for my girls nurturing me back to life, I'm not sure where I would be.
00:09If it wasn't for them, I don't think my heart would really come back to form.
00:13It would have been back there, down in the dumps, flat.
00:23So I've written a lot of the music on the album with this writer named Nasri.
00:28Nasri has the ability to get a lot of things out of me that I don't really be telling people.
00:34And at the time, I think I was just going through something where I just felt redundant.
00:39I feel like I constantly experience the same thing over and over again when it comes to love.
00:45But I'm at a point in my life where I'm trying to see it as a positive and I'm trying to not allow
00:52myself to have these experiences hard in me as a person.
00:55And I was taking pride in that.
00:57And I think I was just telling him, I'm like, yeah, I'm going through this.
00:59But you know what?
01:00Whatever.
01:01I'm gonna do it again.
01:01And I'm gonna find somebody else.
01:02And I'm gonna love again.
01:03And I'm gonna do it.
01:04And I'm gonna do it.
01:05And then we create a memory foam.
01:07There's always a lot of weight on my chest after the heartaches and all of that, but I'm always
01:26able to bring it back to its normal form in order to love somebody else.
01:32And he just compared it to memory foam and I thought it was genius.
01:35Maybe it's unrealistic, foolishly resilient to me just feels like sometimes I question whether
01:50my resilience is for a reason or not.
01:53The same thing happens in a different way over and over again.
01:57It's like, damn, am I dumb?
01:58Am I a fool?
01:59Am I doing something wrong?
02:01Is it me?
02:02But I can guarantee you it's not me.
02:22The tea about the video games.
02:24This was not a young love.
02:26You would think it was when I was in middle school.
02:28No, I was an adult.
02:29But what sealed the deal for me, during the pandemic he got addicted to video games.
02:35Streaming video games.
02:36I said, I'm losing to this one.
02:38I'm not even gonna fight for that.
02:39I wish him the best.
02:40He's a great guy.
02:41It was just weird times.
02:43Pandemic.
02:44We were lost.
02:52You would think trying again gets easier.
02:54For some reason in my experience, they get worse.
02:58I don't know what's going on, necessarily.
03:01I'm gonna keep trying, but something's wrong.
03:05It's not me.
03:05I feel like I'm evolving.
03:07I feel like I'm growing.
03:08I'm in my bag.
03:09My heart's like a blade of grass, and you can cut it to pieces, but it keeps going back.
03:24Another Nasri, a blade of grass.
03:26I will give him credit where I do.
03:28I guess he's good at songwriting or whatever.
03:31Because I would never say blade of grass.
03:32He is taking me out of my comfort zone.
03:35I wouldn't have thought of that.
03:36But it's so true.
03:37Actually, it's funny.
03:37When he said it, I was like, so whack.
03:41But then I was like, wait a second.
03:42It is like a blade of grass.
03:44Think about it.
03:44When it doesn't work out, it just felt like the trying again was pointless.
03:59But I will say every time I do try something again, and I do give somebody the opportunity,
04:04and I let somebody in, I learn something about myself.
04:08You know, I'm not perfect.
04:09Whatever, bro.
04:11I got an attitude problem, Anne.
04:13But I will say, every time I'm with somebody, they teach me something new about myself,
04:18and what I want, and what I don't want, and something I gotta fix, which is not much.
04:23But yeah, it really isn't a poor decision.
04:26But in the moment, it just is like, damn, why did I waste my time doing that?
04:38So I'm not typically an anxious person.
04:56I'm very intuitive.
04:58So if I am anxious about something, it's because my heart is telling you, girl, something's wrong.
05:06So with this last person, it is quite literally the last person I was talking to.
05:10I'm not gonna lie.
05:10They made me feel like I was an anxious person.
05:14Anxious slash insecure slash I got problems.
05:17When it turns out, no, no, no.
05:18This was my body in fight or flight and telling me that something is wrong.
05:23So the only side that they were able to see, it wasn't even the best side of me.
05:27It was just filled with anxiety.
05:36I was nervous that the again and again and again was gonna be annoying.
06:05Even when I was singing acapella, I was like, I'm annoying myself.
06:08But I knew what I wanted it to sound like and I know what I wanted to feel like when I'm performing
06:14and I know what I wanted it to mean.
06:16And so just the musicality of it all, I was like, let's start off really soft
06:21and I want to progress and get it bigger and bigger and bigger.
06:23Because I want that to feel like a relief for people when they're listening to it.
06:27That is literally how the song started for me was the bridge, which I've never done that before.
06:33And I was like, I want to get here at some point.
06:49My idea of the one, hopefully he really likes to cook because I like to eat.
06:54I don't like to cook.
06:55Hopefully he likes to cook.
06:55On a serious note, I think I just want somebody, like I said earlier, to only enhance my life.
07:00I'm very blessed and fulfilled in every other aspect.
07:04There's just a little tiny hole that I'm trying to fill eventually with love, an intimate love.
07:10The last line of the song is a little bit more vulnerable than I've even felt comfortable being
07:16in the past.
07:17Because I think it's just, for me, an admission that it's something that I really want in my life.
07:22I genuinely want to be in love and for it to be reciprocated in the most healthy way.
07:28I think it's important for people to hear that because maybe it's something we're afraid to admit.
07:33Because we want to come off as a strong, independent woman, which I am, but damn!
07:38There's only so much self-love I could do, girl!
07:42The music video for Memory Foam, I thought it was important for me to highlight how important
07:49my girls are in my life.
07:50They have been there for me through everything and we always talk about in the future when we
07:55do find that person, how beautiful it's going to be for us to look back at everything we went through together.